Friday, December 02, 2005

Recording Industry vs The People is "a blog devoted to the RIAA's lawsuits of intimidation brought against ordinary working people." Accurate and funny, despite all the legal mumbo jumbo written by Ty Rogers, Ray Beckerman, and Dan Singer. Hey, these guys are lawyers, so they should know what they are talking about.

We are lawyers in New York City. We practice law at Beldock Levine & Hoffman LLP.
Through the Electronic Frontier Foundation we and our firm have undertaken to represent people in our area who have been sued by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for having computers whose internet accounts were used to open up peer-to-peer file sharing accounts.
We find these cases to be oppressive and unfair, as large law firms financed by the recording industry sue ordinary working people for thousands of dollars.

» recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com

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David Byrne

David Byrne get his hand slapped by the RIAA, the Recording Industry Association of America. As per usual, the RIAA got it wrong. From David's journal:

The RIAA issued me a warning based on a previous radio playlist that featured all Missy Elliot, all the time. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which was passed by congress in 1998, was a hastily thrown together measure (in my opinion) which aimed to protect the music industry from the impending apocalypse. While some parts of the law seem reasonable, other aspects went somewhat overboard to protect the interests of the industry, before folks even knew what would be developed, invented or what half the terms actually meant.
In my case the law forbids streaming “radio” that features more than 4 tracks by any one artist in a three-hour period. My guess is that they may have confused streaming with downloading — in the same way that people often confuse downloading with file sharing. They are afraid that even if it’s not downloadable somehow if a fan knows there will be 3 Missy songs at a given time they can prepare their gear and tape them. The assumption being that sale is lost

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» riaa.com

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Disco Biscuits

Episode 13 in the podcasts section Live Jambands in Holland:

Live Jambands in Holland #13:
Disco Biscuits
De Melkweg, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2005-03-20 (first night of Jam in the 'Dam 2005)
Running time: 48:29 -- 128 kbit
Taped by Scott Schneider

  1. crowd/tuning
  2. Morph Dusseldorph
  3. House Dog Party Favor
  4. Kitchen Mitts

Podcast:
» podcast.xs4all.nl/users/werksman/Live+Jambands+in+Holland

RSS feed:
» podcast.xs4all.nl/rss/werksman/Live+Jambands+in+Holland

More about the Disco Biscuits:
» discobiscuits.com

Download this show from the Live Music Archive:
» Live Music Archive

» What is podcasting? (Wikipedia - Dutch version)

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Trey Anastasio

Trey Anastasio
11/26/2005
Fillmore Auditorium, Denver, CO, USA

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Trey Anastasio
11/30/2005
Roseland Theatre, Portland, OR, USA

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